Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri has said the larger goal of the Centre is to fulfil the housing need of homeless urban poor and enable them to own decent pucca houses by 2022. Addressing a function in New Delhi, Mr Puri said, based on demand assessment at the state level, there is a need to construct about 12 million houses under Economically Weaker Section/Low Income Group segment of the society in order to achieve the goal of Housing for All.<br/><br/>The Minister said the government has made several efforts to create enabling environment and eco-system to promote affordable housing. He said Centre has granted infrastructure status to affordable housing which will enable the projects to avail the associated benefits such as lower borrowing rates, tax concessions and increased flow of foreign and private capital.